evil eye

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil eye
Noun
  • An overarching concern for all involved is that more such communications will come out that will prove a pox on everyone’s houses, so to speak.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That’s why squirrel fibromatosis is also known as squirrel pox.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The problem is that Tipping — using lots of quick cuts, booming music cues, flashing X-rays of injuries and occult-style voodoo horror tropes — fails to run up any numbers on the scoreboard.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The last of the old curses and the purest championship drought in the sport.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • After its patriarch’s mysterious death, the pharma family falls prey to an ancient curse.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Spurs were clunky and predictable in possession, apart from a spell at the end of the first half when Mohammed Kudus looked too quick and too sharp for the Wolves defence.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Michigan residents are in for another warm spell as the weather forecast shows temperatures in the 80s this week and mostly dry conditions.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Evil eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil%20eye. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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